Does that mean that we should never hire or promote an inexperienced manager who had not already learned to do what needs to be done in this assignment? The answer: it depends. In a start-up company w...
Creating the right experiences and then integrating around them to solve a job, is critical for competitive advantage. That’s because while it may be easy for competitors to copy products, it’s diffic...
But this book is not about companies with such weaknesses: It is about well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen astutely to their customers, invest aggressively in new te...
But the better you are at asking the right questions, engaging in the right observations, eliciting ideas and feedback through networking with the right people, and running experiments, the less likel...
But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different...
At a more serious level, the desirability of aligning our actions with the more powerful laws of nature, society, and psychology, in order to lead a productive life, is a central theme in many works,...
As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.
When people encounter a significant threat, a response called threat rigidity sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and to become command and control oriented—to focus ev...
This is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by primary care physicians in the future.
The breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for an answer to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-...
Remember that it is changes in the slope of the platform, not the level of the platform, that create shareholder value at an above-average rate.
Recent IBM poll of fifteen hundred CEOs identified creativity as the number-one leadership competency of the future.
If our ward and stake leaders were to focus on leading their members to share the gospel, many of the other problems that fester in our hearts and homes, and in our wards and stakes, would resolve the...
A jobs-to-be-done lens can help innovators come to market with an initial product that is much closer to what customers ultimately will discover that they value. The way to get as close as possible to...
With few exceptions, the only instances in which mainstream firms have successfully established a timely position in a disruptive technology were those in which the firms’ managers set up an autonomou...
When we so heavily focus on providing our children with resources, we need to ask ourselves a new set of questions: Has my child developed the skill to develop better skills? The knowledge to develop...
When we buy a product, we essentially hire something to get a job done. If it does the job well, when we are confronted with the same job, we hire that same product again. And if the product does a cr...
When my invitation centered on how the Church would interest them, Tom wasn’t interested. But when I asked for help, Tom said, Sure. He and his wife have become wonderful members of our ward.
What this implies at a deeper level is that many of what are now widely accepted principles of good management are, in fact, only situationally appropriate. There are times at which it is right not to...
What could happen if we changed our emphasis from push to pull? What if much more of the $143 billion spent on official development assistance in 2016 was channeled to support direct market-creation e...